Leadership & management skills
Conflict is a natural occurrence in any relationship, so you should expect to see it arise within your organization. But it’s not pleasant. Conflict causes avoidance, agitation, and frustration. And it will sap employee enthusiasm and productivity. As a leader, it’s your job to actively resolve conflict when it occurs—to foster healthy working relationships...
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Challenging work relationships can raise stress levels and significantly lower your job performance—not to mention satisfaction. But you don’t have to settle for bullying, micromanaging, harmful gossiping, and garden-variety negativity. It’s time. Make 2019 the year you take action to address difficulties with your boss, teammates, or subordinates. Don’t back off – Dealing with...
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Are you amongst the millions who groan at the thought of another meeting? You probably consider them irrelevant & an absolute waste of your time. However this doesn’t need to be the case. There are secrets to productive meetings & successful entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos (Amazon) & Elon Musk (Tesla) are known to live...
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Managers are stuck between a rock and a hard place when employees make mistakes. The idea is to correct the problem behavior and set the employee on track for success. But no one likes to deliver bad news. And mishandling a disciplinary conversation can have a demoralizing (instead of motivating) effect—or, worse, put you...
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In the webinar “Meetings: From Ordinary to Extraordinary,” effectiveness expert Paul Axtell explains how to communicate to get the desired results out of everyday team meetings—namely, to clarify issues, sharpen focus, set direction, and move key goals forward. Do you feel heard? Do people build upon your comments? Consider that there is a way...
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An article in bizjournals.com made a very good point. “While experience is a great teacher, it often means that we tend to continue what we have done in the past. Professional development opens us up to new possibilities, strategies, knowledge and skill areas. It also goes on to enumerate why if you are an...
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Sales and marketing are in constant flux, and that is truer now than ever. With competitors using real-time analytics to manage their digital sales strategies, it’s imperative that you know right away which tactics are working and which aren’t—and have a backup plan to turn negative results around fast. The new buzz phrase is...
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You may have heard that, when it comes to finding the perfect employee, behavioral interviews are much more effective than traditional interviews. If you knew how much better they are, you might resolve to finally learn to implement this hiring approach. Behavioral interviews are 500 percent better than traditional interviews at securing the...
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Research via Images Here is a succinct view of what research surveyed a total of 318 businesswomen from 19 different countries and 30 different industries. The respondents on average were 48-years old, with the large majority (75 percent) indicating that they were either mid- or senior-level leaders. This research throws light on whether women...
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There have always been these lengthy conversations about how women have to work extra hard, sacrifice a lot more and often battle uncomfortable situations to reach the glass ceiling; let alone break it. Many a times, women don’t have the right type of support systems that they need to grow in a professional space...
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